Insights
The shifting paradigm of Philippine elections
These soothingly changing electoral days of untraditional templates and unconventional ways paves the way for the new political paradigm to prevail.
Apparently, the reinvigorated electorate no longer belongs to the obsolescent ruling class, but among the politically and economically emerging ranks of the Filipino workers abroad.
Worrying sentiments and seizures of panic pervades every oligarchic soul in this governmentally ravaged land of ours.
Disquieted and anxious of the rapidly evolving trend in the coming elections, the ravenous oligarchy quivers at the notion of losing their savage grip on the malnourished neck of their historically dominated subjects.
Towering above the political warlords who used to subjugate their impoverished constituency is the profound influence of Filipinos abroad whose indelible acquaintance to a responsive government, decency in public office, and progressive equality in their respective societies, insightfully portrays the enviable core of the developed countries employing, or more patently, pirating our young professionals.
Gravitating forcefully to the immediate rectification of feudal socio-political structures, the paradigm shift brought on by the Filipino Diaspora ushers in the new political tenets, staunchly yearned for but never realized by social activists of the decades past.
The sweeping trend of intense inquisitiveness among Filipino voters pertaining to the mandate of the ruling authorities, sharply stands in severe contrast to usual indifference and unconcern.
When electoral fact-finding unusually veers in the direction of issues instead of personalities, running down the ancient song and dance routine, demanding the candidates’ stand on the burning questions in our questionable democracy; the grueling turning point from semi-feudal to democratizing society is on its first crucial steps.
While we grope our way in establishing responsive representation, easily adapting to the wide-scale transformation in our political influences, societal interests, and the profound implications of information technology.
Telenovelic and televised apologies no longer holds sway in the Philippine political theater; as the historically coerced and brainwashed Filipino voter breaks away from the blood soaked shackles of patronage politics.
Through the chainsaw of foreign remittances, massively emancipating the populace from the clutches of feudalism, immeasurably redeeming and rectifying the paradigm of money, machinery, and military; the overseas wave of sheer sacrifice for family affects the entire citizenry in its embrace of political accountability and modernity to better the lives of the families they’ve left behind.
Even those with vegetative aspirations for the Senate, and movie personalities with delusions of grandeur, no matter how popular or prosperously financed and fertilized, continue to slide in the surveys.
Diminishing the influence of inane jingles and platitudinal prattles, the soaring demand for unwavering principles will wreak electoral havoc to the unprincipled majority.
As the specter of losing political slaves becomes inevitable and utterly unacceptable to the vicious oligarchs in our country, provincial warlords struggle to impose their debauched will upon their historically dominated constituencies, presently and prematurely in the eyes of the establishment, their leash should not be weakened nor should it be questioned by Filipinos slaving abroad, individuals experiencing for the first time, paradoxically on foreign land, the veneration of human rights.
Serving as a rude awakening to the dependents of government loot extracted while in office, electorally dispensed in ostentatious abandon; the recent survey suggests deeply an ominous sign for the well-financed to reform their parochial ways into issue-oriented leanings with a principled stand, or face political extinction.
The constant communication of OFWs and their families back home through accessibly priced mobile phones, and readily available internet connection, paves the way for crucial discernment of working democracies, as the experiences and transactions of the economically exiled Filipinos in America, United Kingdom, Germany and other developed countries, wherein taxes go back to the taxpayers in the form of respectful and responsive governance, in utter contrast to the privatized taxes for the personal enrichment and survival of the crooks in Philippine government.
As deference to traditional politicians continues to plunge, and voter’s dependence on their embezzled electoral resources swiftly cascades under the sobering influence of Filipino workers abroad. Mere mention of how things work in the egalitarian societies they’ve immigrated to, serves as blanket condemnation against the government in power.